While the impact in men is not as great as in females, men are obviously at risk for HPV infections and related diseases, Wyand said. Also, by extending the vaccine to boys and young men, it drives home the point that we're talking about the <i>human</i> papillomavirus. Otherwise, it might be too easy to slot HPV as a 'women's infection,' which both unfairly isolates women and deprives men of their rightful place in these discussions. Individuals tend to use prescription opioids as a substitute for heroin when heroin is unavailable, to augment a heroin-induced 'high,' to 'treat' withdrawal symptoms, and to curb heroin use, Martins explained in the news release. The study, reported online June 17 in the journal <i>Pediatrics</i>, has a number of limitations, Tucker acknowledged. One is that the children and parents were interviewed at one point in time, so it's not clear that the sibling aggression actually led to the poorer mental health.

Dronedarone is currently used to treat intermittent atrial fibrillation but is not approved for treatment of the permanent form of the condition. This study was designed to investigate if dronedarone would benefit patients 65 and older with permanent atrial fibrillation, but it was halted after enrolling only 30 percent of the intended 10,800 patients. Since researchers know that more amyloid protein is produced by neurons in active circuits, the results could mean that quieting them down and getting a good night's sleep might help to prevent Alzheimer's, said Greg Cole, a neuroscientist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System. The FDA has tried in the past to increase its role in overseeing compounding pharmacies. But it was stopped, Dykstra said, by a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a portion of a 1997 law that had given the FDA the ability to develop regulations for the compounding industry. To learn more about circumcision, visit <a rel=nofollow href=http://www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/prenatal/decisions-to-make/Pages/Circumcision.aspx target=_blank>American Academy of Pediatrics</a>.

She added that there are a fair number of false positives involved in CT scans for lung cancer. These can be resolved through screening, but that adds to the number of radiation exposures a patient will receive. People with two copies (one from each parent) of the ApoE4 gene variant are at extremely high risk for Alzheimer's. Only 2 percent of people have two copies of the variant, while about 15 percent of people carry a single copy. <strong>Drugs.com</strong> provides accurate and independent information on more than 24,000 pres